Acronym Ofw stands for Overseas Filipino Workers. Sung-a Yoon, Korea-born director living in Brussels, in this Belgian-French co-production searched for human stories hidden behind the dispassionate term. However, she is not interested in migrant workers in a broad sense. What she focuses on are women who serve as domestic helps and nannies. It is estimated that every year, 200,000 Filipino women decide to travel abroad to get income as household service workers. Often having signed up for two-year contracts, they travel to rich, developing countries all over the globe, often leaving behind their own children. However, it is not uncommon that Ofw are toiling not returning home, thus without seeing their close ones, for years.
“Overseas” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
The movie begins with a 4-minutes steady sequence of a young female cleaning the toilet. Barefoot, in an apron, and a protective net covering her hair, she methodically...
“Overseas” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
The movie begins with a 4-minutes steady sequence of a young female cleaning the toilet. Barefoot, in an apron, and a protective net covering her hair, she methodically...
- 10/28/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
The 35th Warsaw Film Festival has concluded and the list of winners includes a few Asian and Asian-related titles.
Grand Prix was awarded to Georgian movie “Shindisi” portraying real-life events that happened in 2008 during Russo-Georgian war, when Russian forces violated the ceasefire. It goes beyond military affairs, focusing also on the civilians, who with simple humane courage and compassion attempt to save lives of several wounded Georgian soldiers. Dito Tsintsadze, who helmed the movie, also took honours of the best director. “Shindisi” is a Georgian candidate for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
A Hairy Tale
Iranian “A Hairy Tale” by Homayoun Ghanizadeh got the Special Jury Award for the Best Script. The renowned avant-garde theatre director in his debut feature skillfully plays with the form and conventions. Under the facade of a black comedy about eccentric employees of a barber shop, he tells a story...
Grand Prix was awarded to Georgian movie “Shindisi” portraying real-life events that happened in 2008 during Russo-Georgian war, when Russian forces violated the ceasefire. It goes beyond military affairs, focusing also on the civilians, who with simple humane courage and compassion attempt to save lives of several wounded Georgian soldiers. Dito Tsintsadze, who helmed the movie, also took honours of the best director. “Shindisi” is a Georgian candidate for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
A Hairy Tale
Iranian “A Hairy Tale” by Homayoun Ghanizadeh got the Special Jury Award for the Best Script. The renowned avant-garde theatre director in his debut feature skillfully plays with the form and conventions. Under the facade of a black comedy about eccentric employees of a barber shop, he tells a story...
- 10/25/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins got more than divine intervention at the 27th Hamptons Film Festival, they got the audience’s blessing.
Netflix’s “The Two Popes” took top honors as the Hiff Audience winner at the festival, which ran from October 10-14. It was joined by two docs as fan faves over the long holiday weekend. “Popes” star Pryce even made a surprise appearance at a screening Sunday night, telling the sold-out crowd, “It’s pretty cool to play the pope. I was nervous at first. I wanted to be honest to the man. I look a bit like him. The uncanny thing is I walk like him anyway. He has a dodgy hip and I have a dodgy knee.”
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Pryce said he was in awe of his co-star and fellow countryman Hopkins, who played Pope Benedict XVI. And...
Netflix’s “The Two Popes” took top honors as the Hiff Audience winner at the festival, which ran from October 10-14. It was joined by two docs as fan faves over the long holiday weekend. “Popes” star Pryce even made a surprise appearance at a screening Sunday night, telling the sold-out crowd, “It’s pretty cool to play the pope. I was nervous at first. I wanted to be honest to the man. I look a bit like him. The uncanny thing is I walk like him anyway. He has a dodgy hip and I have a dodgy knee.”
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Pryce said he was in awe of his co-star and fellow countryman Hopkins, who played Pope Benedict XVI. And...
- 10/16/2019
- by Bill McCuddy
- Gold Derby
Warsaw Film Festival (Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy) is gearing up to launch its 35th edition. Set to take place from October 11th–20th in Warsaw, Poland, it has just announced its full 2019 schedule. The program spanning over 10 days includes impressive numbers of 111 feature movies and 69 shorts.
Warsaw Film Festival has always been open to inviting Asian movies and filmmakers from various regions. In the past one could find films from i.a. China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Israel, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Mongolia and Kazakhstan.
Festival selectors are more focused on discovering new talents than presenting works of renowned artists. As we can read on the Wff website:
Our aim is to show a film before it wins an Oscar, to introduce a director to Warsaw audiences before he or she wins an award at the Cannes festival. We don’t chase filmmakers who are already famous. Some of the most amazing directors,...
Warsaw Film Festival has always been open to inviting Asian movies and filmmakers from various regions. In the past one could find films from i.a. China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Israel, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Mongolia and Kazakhstan.
Festival selectors are more focused on discovering new talents than presenting works of renowned artists. As we can read on the Wff website:
Our aim is to show a film before it wins an Oscar, to introduce a director to Warsaw audiences before he or she wins an award at the Cannes festival. We don’t chase filmmakers who are already famous. Some of the most amazing directors,...
- 10/2/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
In a two-story building down a chronically flooded street, a dozen Filipino women brace for an encroaching departure. They are the domestic workers at the center of Sung-a Yoon’s singular hybrid Overseas, a piercing portrait of young maids waiting to be shipped abroad, and training to withstand the pain the journey and separation from home will stir. Echoing Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma–of which it shares the same humanism, and with which it would make for a terrific double bill–Overseas is a harrowing story of resilience, an elegy of people pushed to the margins, whom Yoon restitutes as dignified and strong-willed fighters, in a work that dances between reality and fiction to an engrossing extent.
Inspired by the work of sociologist Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and her seminal text “Migrant Mothers Without Borders,” Sung-a Yoon crafts a fly-on-the-wall look at an academy where young maids learn the ropes before being...
Inspired by the work of sociologist Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and her seminal text “Migrant Mothers Without Borders,” Sung-a Yoon crafts a fly-on-the-wall look at an academy where young maids learn the ropes before being...
- 8/28/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) have unveiled the line-up for its 11th edition, which will be it’s longest run to date.
The festival this year will run from the 3rd – 27th November. This years selection could very well be it’s best line up ever.
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Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath will kick off the event on the 3rd November
The show kicks off with the UK Premiere of director Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath on the evening of 3 November. Tying in with this year’s Special Focus on Women, this is the first time a female director’s film will open the Lkff.
After working as scripter and assistant director under Park Chan-wook on Lady Vengeance, Lee made her debut with acclaimed comedy-drama Crush and Blush (2008) before making us wait 8-years for this spectacular second feature. Mixing the personal with the political,...
The festival this year will run from the 3rd – 27th November. This years selection could very well be it’s best line up ever.
Add Event To Your Calendar
Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath will kick off the event on the 3rd November
The show kicks off with the UK Premiere of director Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath on the evening of 3 November. Tying in with this year’s Special Focus on Women, this is the first time a female director’s film will open the Lkff.
After working as scripter and assistant director under Park Chan-wook on Lady Vengeance, Lee made her debut with acclaimed comedy-drama Crush and Blush (2008) before making us wait 8-years for this spectacular second feature. Mixing the personal with the political,...
- 9/23/2016
- by The Tiger
- AsianMoviePulse
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